Damed

I've yet to see it in stock on the site, or in the store.. so it's quite possibly an error.

Drexl

It's possible that those titles were encoded by Sony when they had the distribution rights.

bboisvert

That was my thought too... If true, I'm wondering when that changes over?
(Not that Fox's approach to pricing and supplements gives me much hope, but we'll see.)


I just don't understand the logic of releasing an older catalog title like Rocky -- something that most people who care about already own. And putting it out with no extras (when stuff already exists), mediocre picture quality that isn't radically better than upconverting, and then charging $40 for it.

Who exactly are they marketing this stuff to?


I don't mean to drag this thread off topic... I'm just pretty frustrated with the state of releases lately. Maybe if the HD DVD side would actually make a few announcements soon, I could relax.

Mr. Cinema

I'm excited for Ice Age and Dodgeball. The announcements from the BD side may not be appealing to some, but at least they are filling up their release schedule. HD DVD has unfortunately been quiet lately.

matome

So all the HD people are complaining about BD release titles. What awesome HD-DVD ones are coming out? Where's Jurassic Park or Back to The Future then? Anyone can go and pick out crap titles from either camp (Pulse? Doom? Riddick?). It's all subjective. The three titles Fox just announced all made over $100 mil (two closer to 200mil) so I'm sure plenty of people are interested in those, including me.

RockStrongo

I definately want to be fair since I own both formats (though my loyalty is 90/10 in favor of hd-dvd right now).

I am pissed that hd-dvd has not hardly announced anything for 2007 yet, but im also confident that those announcements are going to come. If they start releasing titles like BD is announcing though, ill be disappointed with them too.

Im expecting big titles from both formats soon. Im expecting big things from WB especially (harry potter series and Matrix series). Im wondering if they will be using BD50 now for those?? or if they will continue to be HD-DVD exclusive??

Oh yeah, and bring on The Departed in HD with TrueHD sound and IME. Ill be all over that.

Mr. Cinema

Gotta give thumbs up to Amazon and UPS. Hulk was scheduled to ship today. It shipped yesterday with the 2-day UPS shipping, but was able to get here today as it came from their Delaware warehouse. Too bad my 2nd Amazon Prime trial is over. Now I'm back to the cheap ass shipping options.

Hammer99

Here just outside of Baltimore, I love that Delaware warehouse! I usually get orders the next day with 2-day UPS shipping... I'm paying for Prime now, but I think it's well worth it, at least as long as the 10% deal is still good.

Supermallet

Bizarrely, I cancelled my pre-order of Hulk, but they still sent it to me and charged my card. Schmucks.

RockStrongo

Not official, but good news....

The Departed on hd-dvd and bd in February (13th or 20th).

http://davisdvd.com/news/news.html

Ill definately be grabbing that one. Probably my favorite movie of 2006. Im sure they want to release during award season.

Hammer99

Link

March 13th to Blu-Ray:
Mr & Mrs. Smith
Ice Age
Dodgeball
and rescheduled Commando

4 great titles IMO , I'll get them all.

Mr. Cinema

According to this url, we will be seeing some of these high profile Disney titles on Blu-ray in 2007.

Pirates 1
Finding Nemo
National Treasure
Beauty and the Beast
Alladin
The Lion King
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news...-ray_Booty/390

Drexl

^We'll see what they actually release.

Remember that the insert for HD DVD back in April (and still included with new titles) claimed that titles like The Matrix and The Shawshank Redemption were coming to HD DVD in 2006.

bdhart

Well, we still have a few weeks left in 2006

Nevi

DVDEmpire has listings for more Fox (MGM) BDs on 3/13:
http://dvd.themanroom.com/dvd-newsview.php?id=413

Dances With Wolves
Hoosiers
The Silence Of The Lambs (for me, a must buy!)
The Thomas Crown Affair

matome

Oh hell yes

Rusty James

Once again, all appear to be devoid of any extras whatsoever except for a trailer. You'd think by this point, Blu-ray discs would have started to take advantage of all those extra gbs. It is baffling, really.

Kocheese99

Couple HD-DVD music releases:

01/23/07

Toto: Live in Amsterdam
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux

RockStrongo

All of those would be must buys for me. If these are released (good quality and extras), BD starts to gain alot of steam in my mind.

RockStrongo

I would grab all but Thomas Crown....those are some of my favorites and must buys....the lack of extras is EXTREMELY disturbing. They have SEs that have alot of extras. I dont want to have to keep the old sd dvds!!

BD releases are starting to look promising to me (titles at least).

DthRdrX

Futureshop is showing Conan the Barbarian (Hd-dvd) for Jan 30, 2007. Keeping my fingers crossed for this one!

Skoobooz

Futureshop is also showing Brazil for January 30, 2007. If true, it looks like Universal is pretty interested in getting all their Criterion-licensed titles out on HD....

Drexl

Holy crap, but I wonder how the quality will be.

flashburn

Brazil was recently shown on Universal HD (and I believe it will be again shortly). Did anyone catch it? I am also wondering what the quality was like. Regardless I will pick it up since I only have the original Criterion Non-Anamorphic release.

Skoobooz

The recent anamorphic Criterion version looked pretty great. Although I'm sure Universal will be using a different master (maybe), it has the potential to look amazing.